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Bill: Tax Debate
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Democratic Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill proposes to change income taxes. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 3822
Description[?]:
| The Libertarian Party of Solentia (LPS) propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Democratic Republic of Solentia. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 0
Proposed: 5
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 30
Current: 0
Proposed: 40
Article 3
We propose to alter income tax brackets to the following setup. Information about the current income tax system can be found here.
| Bracket | Tax | Estimated Revenue |
| > 30,000 SOL | 18% | 145,453,000,000 SOL |
| > 60,000 SOL | 30% | 108,604,000,000 SOL |
| > 90,000 SOL | 40% | 93,552,000,000 SOL | Total | 347,609,000,000 SOL |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:46:01, March 27, 2015 CET | From |  Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Tax Debate |
| Message | Less drastic than the last one, once again, if we have too big of a surplus after this we will lower the lowest bracket. |
| Date | 02:46:16, March 27, 2015 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Tax Debate |
| Message | *lower the percentage of the lowest bracket |
| Date | 02:46:49, March 27, 2015 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Tax Debate |
| Message | And by the way, if you think the previous tax was fine, vote for that, as we're leaving this one to vote until that one passes or fails |
| Date | 03:15:34, March 27, 2015 CET | From | Radical Republican Party (RRP) | To | Debating the Tax Debate |
| Message | This is a bill NLP can support. Aaron Johnsson Chairman of NLP |
| Date | 03:28:37, March 27, 2015 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Tax Debate |
| Message | "Thank you. Realize that if our surplus is too high after this, we will lower taxes on the poor and middle class a bit." ~Ted Johnson. head chairman of the LPS and Prime minister |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 338 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 158 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 29 |
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